The Vanishing Mail

Spam, as we all know, is a menace. Due to the stringent filters, I have recently found that mail I expected and, indeed, wanted to receive was obviously being filtered out without me being given a choice of whether or not I wished to receive it. I am suffering from the opposite of spam and there is nothing I can do about it. This situation made me think about the future of email..

Internet Tip of the Week: Cease and Desist

Every customer looks for 3 special benefits when they do business with you. They may not specifically ask for these benefits. But you're losing sales if you don't automatically provide all 3.

E-mail SPAM: What's The Big Deal?

It absolutely amazes me how many people over-react to receiving e-mail SPAM. What is this obsession...this preoccupation with SPAM? Where are our priorities? When it comes to SPAM, many of us are ...

Which Spam Filter Is Best For You?

With the number of spam filtering solutions increasing each week it's getting tougher for consumers to make informed choices in their purchases. There are 3 basic types of spam filters: Integrated...

Spam: The Tasteless Internet Meat of Criminals

Spam. You’ve all heard of the crazy pink meat in a can, but what’s it got to do with the Internet? Well, it’s also the namesake for a major problem in the World Wide Web-unsolicited junk email. Probl...

Sick Of Wading Through Spam?

Spam blockers - independent review of some of the best tools..

Protecting Your Business From Spam

Even being as careful as possible with my email address, I still used to receive more than 100 email messages a day, which is no exaggeration. Only about 10% of those emails were from people that I k...

How Can I Stop Getting Spam?

Are you getting too much spam? We all are, but if you're a webmaster the word spam takes on a whole new meaning. It’s not uncommon for the luckiest of email users to receive a dozen or so spam messag...

How to Fight Back BEFORE You're Falsely Accused of Spam

A friend of mine received a chilling email message from his ISP the other day. Someone had reported him as sending SPAM and the ISP warned that an additional SPAM complaint would result in losing hi...

Junk Mail Works!

Junk mail works. Why does it work? How does it work? These are very important questions. To make it work, it has to appeal to the emotions.

SPAM: A Nutrious Food or a Waste of Time?

Help yourself and your readers by being very descriptive in your email subject lines. When we give an accurate subject line, we begin to answer the question “What’s this about?” Our readers appreciate knowing how to focus their reading and also feel more confident opening emails presented this way. Read this article for ways to make your subject lines descriptive.

Spammer in the Slammer: Jeremy Jaynes Sentenced to Nine Years

Jeremy Jaynes was on top of the world. By age 28, he owned a million-dollar home, a high-class restaurant, a chain of gyms and countless other toys. Yet those were only the spoils of his main line of business, which was swindling innocent people out of their money through email scams. Now he has been sentenced to 9 years in prison. How will this affect the spamming community?

How Spammers Fool Rule-based and Signature-Based Spam Filters

Effectively stopping spam over the long-term requires much more than blocking individual IP addresses and creating rules based on keywords that spammers typically use. Learn what sorts of solutions are out there, how the spammers fool them, and what you can do about it.